The Fox wars
Subtitle: the Mesquakie challenge to New France
By: by R. David Edmunds and Joseph L. Peyser.
Contributors: Peyser, Joseph L., 1925-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Civilization of the American Indian series ;; v. 211
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Fox Indians -- Wars.; Fox Indians -- Government relations.; Fox Indians -- History -- Sources.; Ethnohistory -- New France.; New France -- History -- Sources.; New France -- Politics and government.
Description: "This is the saga of the Fox (or Mesquakie) Indians' struggle to maintain their identity in the face of colonial New France during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries." "The Foxes occupied central Wisconsin, where for a long time they had warred with the Sioux and, more recently, had opposed the extension of the French firearm-and-fur trade with their western enemies. Caught between the Sioux anvil and the French hammer, the Foxes enlisted other tribes' support and maintained their independence until the late 1720s. Then the French treacherously offered them peace before launching a campaign of annihilation against them. The Foxes resisted valiantly, but finally were overwhelmed and took sanctuary among the Sac Indians, with whom they are closely associated to this day."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-269) and index.